[24]
And if we wish to recollect
those things which have been handed down to us traditionally about each of
the gods, we have heard that this mighty Mother; whose games were thus
violated and polluted, and turned almost to a massacre and to the
destruction of the city, does roam over the fields and through the groves
with a certain degree of noise and roaring.
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.